Antibiotic Resistance

In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have welet bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary armsrace?

In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillinstarted a golden age of medicine. However, expertswarn that the end of that age may be just a decadeaway. In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wilesexplores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance andits threat to New Zealand. Wiles concludes that NewZealand must do more to protect the public from afuture without antibiotics.